India, Kazakhstan Agree To Further Strengthen Defence Cooperation

India and Kazakhstan today agreed to further strengthen defence cooperation as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met the country’s top leaders to discuss ways to consolidate the strategic partnership in areas like trade, energy, security and information technology.

Swaraj is on a three-nation tour to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan as part of India’s efforts to boost strategic partnership with the resource-rich central Asian nations.

She held delegation-level talks with her Kazakh counterpart Kairat Abdrakhmanov. The two leaders held a comprehensive discussion on deepening cooperation in trade and investment, defence and security, energy, Information and Communications Technology (ITC), pharma, capacity building and culture.

Kazakhstan is India’s largest trade and investment partner in Central Asia. Read More